{"id":167914,"date":"2023-07-20T16:24:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/fossil-reveals-the-unexpected-moment-a-cat-size-mammal-took-on-a-dinosaur-three-times-its-size"},"modified":"2023-07-20T16:24:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:24:39","slug":"fossil-reveals-the-unexpected-moment-a-cat-size-mammal-took-on-a-dinosaur-three-times-its-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/fossil-reveals-the-unexpected-moment-a-cat-size-mammal-took-on-a-dinosaur-three-times-its-size","title":{"rendered":"Fossil reveals the unexpected moment a cat-size mammal took on a dinosaur three times its size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fossil-reveals-the-unexpected-moment-a-cat-size-mammal-took-on-a-dinosaur-three-times-its-size.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometime during the Cretaceous Period, 125 million years ago, a feisty mammal the size of a domestic cat encountered a dinosaur three times its size and thought it looked like a tasty meal.<\/p>\n<p>A fossil unearthed in northeastern China captures the two creatures \u2014 a badgerlike animal called Repenomamus robustus and a species of plant-eating dinosaur known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnh.org\/exhibitions\/permanent\/ornithischian-dinosaurs\/psittacosaurus\" target=\"_blank\">Psittacosaurus<\/a> \u2014 forever locked in mortal combat.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a dramatic instant in time that challenges the idea that the earliest mammals lived in the shadows of dinosaurs, said paleobiologist Jordan Mallon, a research scientist at the Canadian Museum of Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime during the Cretaceous Period, 125 million years ago, a feisty mammal the size of a domestic cat encountered a dinosaur three times its size and thought it looked like a tasty meal. A fossil unearthed in northeastern China captures the two creatures \u2014 a badgerlike animal called Repenomamus robustus and a species of plant-eating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}